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What's going on in South Korea?
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Scarabrae



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:38 pm    Post subject: What's going on in South Korea? Reply with quote

Sorry if this is a re-post. Just saw it randomly on Vimeo today...

http://www.vimeo.com/1192359
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bovinerebel



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What sensationalistic conspiracy bollocks. And that's coming from someone who believes we never went to the moon.

tw@t
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Bigfeet



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I couldn't handle more than a few minutes of it, too one-sided.
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Stevie_B



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tsk. Silly gyopo.
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CentralCali



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bovinerebel wrote:
And that's coming from someone who believes we never went to the moon.


Are you serious?
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seoulsucker



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our president? Haha...good one, Jay.
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lastat06513



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just saw the whole thing and yes, it is tremendously left-leaning and one-sided......I think most young people were getting used to having a huge say in politics after Noh Mu Hyun came to power and after he fucked things up so much, when someone came in to try to fix things- there is this huge outcry........

Hello!
Korea is a member of the WTO. If they have a justified trade dispute with the US or if they have a problem with a product the US is trying to export to them, wouldn't it make more sense to take it up with the WTO than to show the world how mentally imbalanced they are by holding demonstrations every night of the week? The news is already reporting that many foreign firms are geniunely concerned about their investement in the country and some of them are pulling their offices out of Korea because of it....

Korea and Koreans complain that they are losing out in the global market- Can it be that some of the wrong being done might actually be because of some stuff Koreans bring on themselves? That could be a possibility, but no Korean will ever admit to it.

This video is just a sad sorry attempt to explain (and justify) their xenophobic behavior to the rest of the world.

I am American and I eat American beef....does this mean I will develop dementia in my older years?......according to the video, it does and that is the kind of hysteria people are fed on an almost daily basis either in the media or on the 'net.

But you know what? I think alot of politicians who see these protests going on will take seriously Korea's application into the VWP~

What alot of Koreans don't realize is that President Lee went there with the promise of making concessions to the US in return for something. I have a friend who is a staffer at the White House and small part of the deal was that if Korea opened it's doors to American beef (one of the biggest hurdles of the KorUS FTA), the US would make concessions like allowing Korea into the VWP by the end of the fiscal year as well as allow South Korean products that are made in the Gaesong Industrial Complex available on the US market (which are prohibited by the embargo placed on anything made in North Korea)..........if he goes back on that deal, he loses out on all the things promised to him in return...........which will hurt many Koreans hoping to enter the US using the VWP and also hurt many companies that want to sell their products in the US............

It's a tit-4-tat world....thats how politics work.....................................
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Alyssa



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The guy seems like he graduated from the fourth grade. I guess he is the symbol of Korean Americans, plus he thinks he is cool by throwing in four letter words, I feel sorry for him , seems like he wants to be cool or get noticed Sad
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bovinerebel



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
bovinerebel wrote:
And that's coming from someone who believes we never went to the moon.


Are you serious?


Yes. We've never been to the moon. I'm a highly intelligent , fully rational person and quite aware of the stigma of this conspiracy. I also know how the stigma arose through people like fox doing documentaries on it that did not present the overpowering evidence , instead presented the weaker arguments that no serious person would use to validate their belief. Start a forum on it if you want..... we never went to the moon....the really silly thing to believe is that we did in 1969.....before we'd invented the pocket calculater.....when we can't even do it today (put a man there).....ha ha ha.....even the japanese (the most technologically advanced society we've ever known) space program think they'll only find a way to manage it in 10 years time ....anyway...there's plenty of evidence that we didn't ever do and only some grainy government issued crappy , grainy , black and white video feeds recorded off 30 year old projectors and photos to "prove" we did.. ..talk about "loonies" .

There's loads of spoofs and crack pot videos out there made to discredit the argument etc out there ... but here's a good intro video to watch ......

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7335269088210976286&q=a+funny+thing+happened+on+the+way+to+the+moon&ei=2YVgSK-mH4W4wgPY25mrAw&hl=en
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CentralCali



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bovinerebel wrote:
We've never been to the moon. I'm a highly intelligent , fully rational person


The first part contradicts the latter part.
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bovinerebel



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
bovinerebel wrote:
We've never been to the moon. I'm a highly intelligent , fully rational person


The first part contradicts the latter part.


Yes , yes. I'm aware of your ignorance of the facts in this matter. I'm aware how from your position of ignorance it must seem that way. After all Capernicus and galilleo were called mad men for proposing the earth revolved around the sun. You're no more to blame than a dog who peed on the carpet because he hasn't been trained well. You've been fed a lot of misinformation , strawman arguments and propoganda but never been fed the tools to question it . You simply know no better , so I forgive you. You mean well after all.
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Grab the Chickens Levi



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
we never went to the moon....the really silly thing to believe is that we did in 1969.....before we'd invented the pocket calculater.....


Lol, you're making a fool of yourself with this gem...

It would be like saying it's silly to beleive we created the sputnick sattelite in the 1950's because the desktop calculator hand't been invented yet...

or silly to believe we created the nuclear bomb in the 1940's as the desktop calculator hadn't been invented yet...

Now, I'm not saying we did or didn't go to the moon, but your argument just does not hold weight.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
I'm a highly intelligent , fully rational person


This could be the post of the year.
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CentralCali



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why not say the US landed a manned craft on the Moon? It did happen and only complete WONJCTs pretend otherwise.

Here is a good site to start you onto critical and rational thinking.
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bovinerebel



Joined: 27 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentralCali wrote:
Why not say the US landed a manned craft on the Moon? It did happen and only complete WONJCTs pretend otherwise.

Here is a good site to start you onto critical and rational thinking.


Er...because they didn't ...

Did you just link me to a debunking of the fox documentary ? Let me quote myself in my first post to explain exactly why that makes you look stupid...

Quote:
I also know how the stigma arose through people like fox doing documentaries on it that did not present the overpowering evidence , instead presented the weaker arguments that no serious person would use to validate their belief.


Try again.
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